Best Bioarchaeology
Clark Spencer Larsen is an American biological anthropologist whose research uses human skeletal remains and archaeological evidence to study health, diet, disease, adaptation, and quality of life. His work focuses on the last 10,000 years of human evolution and includes bioarchaeological research a...
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Leading bioarchaeologist whose research and textbooks reshaped interpretations of health, diet, and biological change; highly cited and methodologically authoritative.
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Jane Buikstra is a prominent American archaeologist specializing in bioarchaeology. Her work, beginning in the 1970s, established formal methodologies for analyzing ancient human skeletal remains. She pioneered techniques used to reconstruct past lifeways, health, and diets from archaeological conte...
